DC is not a typical American city. It is a federal government protectorate and the home to many national monuments and federal buildings. This is NOT the hill to choose to die on.
"Talk softly and carry a big stick" were the wise words of Teddy Roosevelt. The DC Mayor has the perfect temperament to stand up to Trump and give him enough rope to hang himself. The lawsuits have already been filed clearly showing the actions of the DOJ are unlawful and unnecessary.
This is political theater and can either be turned into a comedy (of errors) or a tragedy. There are all sorts of Sun Tzu "Art of War" wise quotes applicable here about outwitting your enemy. MAGA is looking for an excuse to resort to violence, but we can pick our battlegrounds and timing.
There will only be one chance to get this done... “If you come at the king, you best not miss.” ~ Omar from the HBO series The Wire.
It's not a typical city, no. And I'll go further and say that our local government should bear some blame for leaving the door open to this kind of shenanigan by not doing an adequate job.
Still, I'm struck by how few people seemed to notice what seems to me to be a pretty important move.
Perhaps quoting from a fictional character in a fictional HBO series is not the best way to make your case.
It's been ten full years since the totalitarian progressive machine fist attempted to take down Trump. They have succeeded only in destroying themselves. Trump is now engaging in mop-up operations.
However good or bad Trump is, remember that he derived his power from those who attempted to destroy him. Learn from that.
What “totalitarian progressive machine” are you referring to? The January 6 insurrection was led by Trump and MAGA supporters who vandalized the Capitol and attacked federal police. “If you don’t want to do the time, don’t do the crime(s).”
Trump’s ICE ‘brown shirts’ have a bigger budget than the USMC! It is obvious who the totalitarian is…
This line of questioning always surprises me, yet I believe it to be in good faith.
You could think of it in progressive terms:
Similar to how Kendi, DiAngelo, et al. lectured about how structural racism was invisible to white people because they had not experienced it, progressives did not experience their totalitarian machine because it was not used against them. If you were a rural, white, Trump-curious, chronically online, "probably on the spectrum" male, you know good and well that the entirety of the United States non-lethal security apparatus was turned against you during Trump 1.
We lived that shit, man, and we take what Mike Benz has explained about the amending of the Smith-Mundt act under Obama as a matter of course. We watched who was cancelled and why, what was live-streamed then promptly taken down on YouTube -vs- media narrative of events, shadow-banning, view-count throttling, million-view-in-an-hour videos not trending, etc. all in real time.
It motivated me to go back to school and study PIR so I could figure out what the hell had just happened. And here I lurk, giving the Pleb point of view on Substack, with just enough knowledge to speak to the elite in their own language (Sorry WIC crew).
I would contend that there is a difference between setting decency standards on the public internet and sending federal troops to occupy cities. How many "rural white, chronically online, Trump-curious(WTF), males have been arrested and sent to El Salvador prisons without trials? This is a crazy false equivalence and far off topic.
Usually, the people who claim they were canceled are actually the loudest and have their freedom still, because we're a free country, just look at the insufferable, scientifically incorrect antivax "activists."
DC is not a typical American city. It is a federal government protectorate and the home to many national monuments and federal buildings. This is NOT the hill to choose to die on.
"Talk softly and carry a big stick" were the wise words of Teddy Roosevelt. The DC Mayor has the perfect temperament to stand up to Trump and give him enough rope to hang himself. The lawsuits have already been filed clearly showing the actions of the DOJ are unlawful and unnecessary.
This is political theater and can either be turned into a comedy (of errors) or a tragedy. There are all sorts of Sun Tzu "Art of War" wise quotes applicable here about outwitting your enemy. MAGA is looking for an excuse to resort to violence, but we can pick our battlegrounds and timing.
There will only be one chance to get this done... “If you come at the king, you best not miss.” ~ Omar from the HBO series The Wire.
It's not a typical city, no. And I'll go further and say that our local government should bear some blame for leaving the door open to this kind of shenanigan by not doing an adequate job.
Still, I'm struck by how few people seemed to notice what seems to me to be a pretty important move.
Perhaps quoting from a fictional character in a fictional HBO series is not the best way to make your case.
It's been ten full years since the totalitarian progressive machine fist attempted to take down Trump. They have succeeded only in destroying themselves. Trump is now engaging in mop-up operations.
However good or bad Trump is, remember that he derived his power from those who attempted to destroy him. Learn from that.
Absolutely true.
What “totalitarian progressive machine” are you referring to? The January 6 insurrection was led by Trump and MAGA supporters who vandalized the Capitol and attacked federal police. “If you don’t want to do the time, don’t do the crime(s).”
Trump’s ICE ‘brown shirts’ have a bigger budget than the USMC! It is obvious who the totalitarian is…
This line of questioning always surprises me, yet I believe it to be in good faith.
You could think of it in progressive terms:
Similar to how Kendi, DiAngelo, et al. lectured about how structural racism was invisible to white people because they had not experienced it, progressives did not experience their totalitarian machine because it was not used against them. If you were a rural, white, Trump-curious, chronically online, "probably on the spectrum" male, you know good and well that the entirety of the United States non-lethal security apparatus was turned against you during Trump 1.
We lived that shit, man, and we take what Mike Benz has explained about the amending of the Smith-Mundt act under Obama as a matter of course. We watched who was cancelled and why, what was live-streamed then promptly taken down on YouTube -vs- media narrative of events, shadow-banning, view-count throttling, million-view-in-an-hour videos not trending, etc. all in real time.
It motivated me to go back to school and study PIR so I could figure out what the hell had just happened. And here I lurk, giving the Pleb point of view on Substack, with just enough knowledge to speak to the elite in their own language (Sorry WIC crew).
Mandatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNcEVYq2qUg
I would contend that there is a difference between setting decency standards on the public internet and sending federal troops to occupy cities. How many "rural white, chronically online, Trump-curious(WTF), males have been arrested and sent to El Salvador prisons without trials? This is a crazy false equivalence and far off topic.
I would contest the framing of your rebuttal, but it's fine, John. No hard feelings. We live in different worlds.
Also, I forgot to include "professional or semi-professional activist network" in my list, which may be the most important one!
Usually, the people who claim they were canceled are actually the loudest and have their freedom still, because we're a free country, just look at the insufferable, scientifically incorrect antivax "activists."
See The Radical Individualist's comment above.
Or, if you'd like, we could step back from our toxically polarized narratives and see truth in platitudes.
You know that moment in Episode IV when Obi-Wan said "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."?
...It's that kind of thing.